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Leveraging the Information-Sphere of Society as the Fulcrum for Involuntary Change

Anyone else watching the tragic events of this summer in Dallas and Orlando and wondering why there is such a determined effort to mislead us all about the nature of what happened and why? To stir up group grievances and even hatred, even if the relevant facts have to be either ignored or lied about? Some days I think the only nice thing about understanding this program of wholesale change in people’s internalized mental models is having access to previous blueprints from my personal library of declared intentions. Today we will look back to a 1988 book The Cassandra Conference: Resources and the Human Predicament edited by Paul R. Ehrlich and John P Holdren. Recognize those two names? I thought so.

That would be the year before his book New World New Mind covered in this post http://invisibleserfscollar.com/how-disabilities-law-is-already-being-used-to-gain-ehrlichs-new-mind-and-the-future-earth-economy/ . Most people recognize Professor Ehrlich from all his hyping of pending environmental catastrophe that never actually happen, but did you know he also has a close working relationship with the very Stanford psychology prof, Albert Bandura (see tag), pushing education as a means for Resistance-Proof Biosocial Revolution in the June 14, 2016 ISC post? Pertinent to our story, in other words, so let’s remind ourselves of how John Holdren fits into our current onslaughts.

He has been at the White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/about/leadershipstaff/director since 2009 in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. It means that the League of Innovative Schools with its neurological focus reports to him as does Digital Promise. The BRAIN Initiative does too, as well as the NSF and thus its Science of Learning Centers. Last but not least, he oversees the nudge-oriented Behavioral Science Team and its push for a national Growth Mindset study.

Now that we have established both men’s pertinence to what is actually being pursued, let’s go eavesdrop on a chapter written by another name we should all recognize–Donella Meadows (see tag) of the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth fame. The chapter was called “How Can We Improve Our Chances?” and it was seeking a means at more effectively shaping “the thinking and the policies of our society.” Tool Number 1 listed was developing new concepts to be used to frame public perception and discussion.

Wouldn’t it be useful to know now what Holdren, Ehrlich, and Meadows said was the “primary social leverage point” in their pursuit of fundamental social, economic, and political change? That would be “the source of ideas.” All three people and, I suppose, the Conference attendees in general, declared as follows so let’s listen in: “we are a part of, though by no means all of, that elect set of people in any society who are its idea generators–the people who interpret society to itself, set up its arguments, frame its issues, define its categories, coin its phrases.”

Just the declared intentions we want from someone in a position to specify, with federal funding, what will be the Next Generation Science DCIs–Disciplinary Core Ideas and CCCs–Cross-Cutting Concepts and Themes, to be imposed and then assessed for in all K-12 education. In fact, this quote from influential, but misguided, economist John Maynard Keynes was cited approvingly in full:

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.”

Listening to President Obama (from yesterday’s speech that doesn’t really count as a eulogy any bereaved person wanted to hear) and the media’s portrayal of what led to Orlando, and how Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Dallas are somehow all equivalent ‘killings,’ it is apparent that all these events must be interpreted to make Group Equity the point. Neither politicians nor the media seem to want to give up the desired narrative, whatever the actual facts or the deadly consequences of the politically useful ideas. Useful that is if fundamental transformation is what is actually sought. This post actually starts a Trilogy to show that is precisely what is going on and how the language used fits with broader goals that track to the UN and its 2030 Dignity For All global focus.

Today though, we need to appreciate why the so-called Information Sphere is so crucial that we have politicians and the media determined not to let mass, intentional, planned-in-advance murder get in the way of their determination to Use Ideas to stir up useful group grievances and cultivate useful personal guilt. Both education and the media are the two critical components of communication in any society and we all need to understand what Ehrlich, Holdren, Meadows, and all the entities and institutions they have worked for since 1988 all knew and were relying on when they made their plans for us: “To prevail, we are going to have to use the power of ideas more skillfully than they do. That means, I think, understanding fully and profoundly, first how ideas create societies and, second, how they create our own selves and our effectiveness.”

So when http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7876 Black Lives Matters calls for ‘quality education for all’ as part of its manifesto, it’s not about facts and teaching reading properly. It has a particular meaning that makes a student amenable to the desired fundamental transformations. Quality Learning was first proposed by not defunct in the least despite decades of being deceased, political philosopher John Dewey, and his plans for education I covered in my book Credentialed to Destroy. He too wanted to control the prevailing Information Sphere at the level of each student’s mind and personality. Back to 1988: “our terribly complex socioeconomic systems are shaped by two basic forces. The first is the physical operation of the universe…”

Guess what? Cause and effect in that physical universe is not affected as “what we say or believe about them has absolutely no influence on how they behave.” In this age of deliberate Mind Arson I would add that whether we even accurately know anything has no effect. Physical laws are “the least changeable parts of a system’s structure. They are the constraints within which a system has to operate; they are not the ultimate or guiding force.” These are not my italics, by the way, and the true guiding force is precisely the reason for all the hype about brain-based learning and student-centered education. Let me quote the next paragraph to the quote we just finished as it is so explicit:

“The source of system structure, the real leverage point for change, is its information–the shared, slowly changing, often unspoken set of social beliefs, and the locally available, always changing streams of specific information [Can we say ‘Individual-in-Context’?], which together influence all human decisions, actions, technologies, and organizations. The human information system works on the physical universe, constrained by its laws, but within those laws there is scope for all the varied inventions, organizations, and cultures that human beings have produced over the ages.”

Guess what? Everyone targeting the Information-Sphere via education and media memes and narratives has plans for a new culture that is politically controlled and coordinated at every level of government. That will be the focus of the remainder of this Trilogy. Meanwhile, we have the admission that in the Information-Sphere “things are very much influenced by what is wished, believed, and said.” That’s the reason for all the lies around race, Islam, Climate Change, how to teach reading, and so much else. That’s why it is apparently OK to stir people up so they falsely believe and feel they are under attack because of race and then turn around and falsely assure people that they are not at risk from some evil-doers because they are not adherents of a certain religion. Let’s quote our influential transformationalists yet again down to what they chose to italicize for emphasis:

“Over the very short term social systems are indeed dominated by their physical setups…But over the long term social systems are shaped almost entirely by the information-sphere, within the constraints of physical laws.” In the age of constructivist math and science those would be the unknown or misapplied (via Transfer to new situations!!) physical laws, but at least there will be no constraints from facts imperiling fundamental transformations. Does this sound giddy to anyone else? “Do you begin to see how easy changing a system can be, if the right information is just put into the right place?”

Why yes I do and now so does everyone reading this post. Does yesterday’s Presidential funeral oration and national and local news coverage suddenly make sense when we eavesdrop and learn “That is our work, to shape the information-sphere of society so that it supports systems of sufficiency, sustainability, and justice, instead of scarcity and waste, degradation, and oppression.” None of us apparently are the insiders who have been designated to be the transformational Idea-Generators although I think I am establishing my reputation as an Idea-Explainer, even if it is unauthorized by the Elect Set of People described above.

Might as well then reiterate the preferred method before we move on to the admitted goals. Remember also that for the Elect Schemers, a person is just another form of system:

“Systems arise, in the long term, from information and ideas. They can be changed most easily through information and ideas. Like the atmosphere, the information-sphere flows through us, through our minds, so thoroughly and constantly that we are hardly aware of it. We take information and put it out. Every word we speak, every action and gesture either reinforces and endorses the socially shared information-sphere or challenges and changes it.”

So much of what must now occur in classrooms globally tracks back to the people who we have just quoted. Let’s all start the rebellion against the schemers using education and the media to fulfill these plans where “with every word we are literally shaping reality for ourselves and others.”

At least we no longer need to speculate on the organized desire to control our very vocabulary and the concepts and categories we are to use to perceive the world and interpret our experiences.

Or as President Obama phrased it yesterday–‘our obligation to reach a consensus.’

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Earlier today I happened upon the final recommendation paper made by a helpful psychologist to the Newton Board of Education in 2013 following the year she and her cohorts spent in the Sandy Hook school district after the tragedy of 2012. ( The good doctor and associates were funded in their efforts to help the community by a federal SERV grant ) The good doctor is one Melissa Brymer of UCLA’s neuropsychiatric institute and hospital ,as well as, Duke University Medical Center.

This bit here caught my eye:

” After violent events, communities need to foster a social justice framework to counter the feelings of helplessness, lack of control,, and mistrust. Social Justice for the purposes of this report, means equal rights fostered by transparent and consistent communication between all parties, informed decision making driven by calm, deliberate and open problem solving, and opportunities for all citizens in the community to give voice to the critical issues shaping their environment. This requires evoking a democracy and holding leaders and their citizens equally accountable for both the process and thew final outcome of problem solving and decision making.”

If you remember I went on the Newtown School District site that tragic Friday before it was ‘fixed’ and discovered the focus of the classrooms was on something called the Tree of Character and the desired characteristics the students should be acquiring through their classroom activities. That district had unfortunately long since moved away from a Transmission of Knowledge orientation in their schools. Newtown was also what was called a ‘Transition Town’ in the Agenda 21/ICLEI nomenclature. So where Dr Brymer immediately wanted to go takes the theories behind Positive School Climate and expands them to the meso-level of the community. Precisely as called for by the Social Determinants of Health documents we are going to cover in Part 2.

And on the micro level we have artificial trauma via SEL activities and programs and enforced humiliation activities under cover of anti bullying like restorative justice circles in elementary schools resemboling AA, EST Al Anon and Delphi.. All behavioral manipulations using peer pressure etc… Trauma reading vile TA lit, studying tragedies like titanic and chernobyl, and weaving fear in global warming, global crisis, isis into every class.
Combined as you said with the massive dumb down disappearing academics and reality based fact based education.

In the “Social Mobilization Policy Brief” created for the November 2016 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Shanghai has these quotes that are so telling as to why these senses of grievance, persecution, and perceived guilt and bias are so crucial.

“Community empowerment, at its core, is about addressing inequities in the distribution of resources and opportunities, and combatting the ingrained power structures which allow these inequities to persist. [my italics] Universal health coverage, for example, is not just about expanding access to essential health and medical services–it is about holding governments accountable for people’s right to health. This aligns with a core goal of civil rights and peace activists [Wade Henderson was also part of that White House convening yesterday], namely pushing governments to be more accountable, transparent and effective. [Remember Albert Bandura’s collective efficacy and proxy agency?] Forging alliances across powerful health and other constituencies, to advocate for interlinked priorities, will create stronger institutions that can in turn support more peaceful, more inclusive and healthier societies.”

That was all at top of page in a box. Below it are these telling words that are so crucial to K-12 education: “A major enabler is the various interlinking of various CSOs [Civil Society Org’s] who combat overlapping injustices [usually with taxpayer funding], harnessing available platforms, competencies, lessons and experiences to strengthen constituencies and generate new ones. Critical to success will be maximally mobilizing the unique enthusiasm, spirit, and social-media know-how of youth, ensuring they are fully engaged in social action and political processes.”

It’s not about registering to vote either and this fits fully with the ABA/Civic Mission of Schools Competencies laid out in Chapter 4 of my book.

The Sanctuary Model in ACES Newtown letter takes me to this link that fits with what you are concerned with. http://andruscc.org/

If you look at the history you will find a confirmation that I guessed at as I knew the Social Justice oriented Surdna Foundation was the benefactor’s name reversed. It is typically a sponsor of many of the initiatives we cover here.

The city of Bend is the latest Oregon area to be taken by progs from the inside. I’ve been watching and studying this here for years. First they start with something small like the library board or the water board, soon they are sitting on school boards and city council presidents. All the while pushing models discussed here. Then the city is converted and the ‘hubs’ arrive. The process in my town has taken longer due to a group of aware people thwarting their appointments, regardless, they are a strong connected group achieving their goals quietly in small towns.
Bend a growing beautiful area has been the newest larger area to have complaints of being the “new” Pdx.

This is precisely what I have discussed before in personal conversations with people about what can happen when a person’s belief system is the sought target and it is neurological change that is sought. The digital environment is perfect because you can monitor both the consistency and the offered visual experiences and the exact responses. Very troubling that this states that the digital environment can support the spiritual experience. Why, yes it can.

I keep reading references to the Robber’s Cave experiment. I may need to explain that soon.

Reading yr articles on the HB project and education K-12 with interest and concern. Adds
to my own views on top down social engineering values conditioning in education., makes me think of Plato’s ‘noble lei’ of the metals in men, gold, silver, bronze, recognized as a lie, but needed
because it was for ‘noble’ ends, to arrest social change, (In ‘The Open Society and its Enemies,’ Karl Popper, Volume 1, Ch 8.)

Thx Robin. Preparing my 40th Edition of Serf Under -ground Journal.
Journal began as response to comments on Judith Curry at ‘Climate Etc’ and includes essays on open society,’ Energy A Staff of Life,’ ‘Messiness Trial and Error-Fizz,’ ‘Conservativitism, fuddy duddy it is not.’ etc and my poetry, book of Feathers,’ ‘The Theatre and the Dance,’ etc.

I’m going to write re the seven deadly sins , Chaucer and critique by Harold Bloom on the attacks of what he calls the literary school of resentrment on the Western Canon.

Robin, I’d like to link to your post, ‘Rewiring Student’s Brain at a Neural Level’ with an overview included in my post. I would pre-
post to you. Hope you don’t mind.
bts

Did you see Deray McKesson of Black Lives Matter tweeting about a 3 hour convening at the White House today on the shootings in Baton Rouge? Fresh from his arrest in Baton Rouge and having been an invitee at the Aspen Ideas Festival wanting to Reinvent Capitalism among other things. Mass murder gets a convening on racial issues but not blue light illumination of white house as the police union requested last Friday.

Federal DoEnergy has put out guidelines as well. The article in the cited book before Donella Meadows was from Herman Daly on Achieving the Steady State Economy. That matters because his 1987 book for the common good is part of the bibliographies supporting Positive School Climates along with Amitai Etzioni’s communitarianism.

Net zero, like these other initiatives, force a shift to coordinated planning by political authorities, bringing everything into line with Urie Bronfenbrenner’s systems vision that starts with the intra-individual brain and belief system. Did you know Urie was born in Moscow in 1917 and emigrated to US with his parents at age 6?

Don’t forget that the national Strive Together template developed by Knowledge Works (that created the New Tech Network to be exemplar high school and works with Institute for the Future) created its template originally for Cincinnati. The Lumina Foundation, in addition to being in charge of redoing the conception of higher ed with the Diploma Qualifications Profile based on Robert Kegan’s work (RSA also hosted him), featured Strive Together prominently at the ‘convening’ of 75 metro areas in Dallas in January 2015.

It also fits with a book I read this weekend by radical profs Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis that was supported by the MacArthur Foundation as part of the Real Utopias Project. It was called Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States and Markets. They wrote about how framing Left Wing radical goals in language associated with conservatism caused people to let their guards down and not appreciate the true nature of the shift. Precisely what we have noticed with various members of the Atlas Network.

Great paper. I am looking at the “Community Schools: Transforming Struggling Schools into Thriving Schools” it cites from the Center for Popular Democracy. I noticed Randi Weingarten if AFT is on that Board and I remember what she said when she introduced Wade Henderson of the Leadership Conference. I was appalled by their statement last week set out here http://www.civilrights.org/press/2016/back-the-blue-act.html

Just added this on what Randi is doing today: “Cleveland and the Republican National Convention will be the focus of the political world this week, but the American Federation of Teachers will also be doing their come-together thing starting today in Minneapolis, where Hillary Clinton will address the gathering at 5 p.m. The union’s biennial convention is expected to draw some 3,000 delegates and a thousand other guests. President Randi Weingarten will deliver her keynote this morning, and she’s expected to praise Sen. Bernie Sanders for helping to make the Democratic Party platform “the most progressive in American history.” Weingarten, a longtime Clinton ally, will celebrate the presumptive Democratic nominee’s record on education and take jabs at Donald Trump, according to remarks prepared for delivery that were shared with Morning Education.”

LEED is highly criticized and how rather inverted to seek ” sustainability” and net zero when building massive high density housing with a toilet in every tiny hovel. Except they are not hovels they are state of the art little luxury boxes with gourmet groceries and shopping avenues connected with Chico and chipoltle , but hundreds/thousands of them in one small spot making big fat footprints any way you slice it. Its illusion.
Its the guilt nudge front for exactly what you say.
Honestly think about the massive ghost towns in china, ours are not as high and are filling up with those willing to live in the Truman Show, voluntary for now.

I wonder how Urie B’s parents pulled that off. One didn’t just apply for a passport to emigrate from the USSR in 1923. My grandfather had to use a ruse and his knowledge of fluent, unaccented Polish to manage to slip out a few years earlier, when things were much more chaotic and less bureaucratically controlled in the immediate wake of the civil war.

If people were allowed to emigrate, it was because they were going to do something useful for the regime.

And he travelled through China and Russia in the 1950s and 60s and studied their kindergarten systems. Again access to highly restricted areas.

His work was also translated into Finnish in 1974. Fighting off a head cold and dealing with multi-generational family matters, but Urie’s work just becomes more seminal, almost like John Dewey’s. It is also called the Bioecological Systems Theory now to refer explicitly to its biological aims at the level of the human nervous system.

“BOYS should dress up as girls as part of “non-gender-specific free play” and teachers should avoid terms like mum or dad when discussing parents — according to guidelines created by the NSW teachers’ union on how to deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex issues in the classroom.”

Thanks Mike. The Australians seem to not quite get just how much unesco and the oecd hold them up as a global template for the shift away from academics. In my continuing analysis of the Left/Right Pincer Action towards a common radical vision, we have The Federalist today pushing Angela Duckworth’s book Grit.

“The revised Perkins Act will provide incentives for strong business sector engagement with high schools and colleges. Legislation also will provide for experiential learning so young people are truly career ready with both strong academic skills and the skills needed to succeed in the workplace.

∙ Most important, there will be specific metrics for success – metrics such as graduation rates and subsequent employment.

These common-sense solutions – cross-sector partnerships, rigorous and targeted curricula, workplace learning, clearly defined success metrics – are already driving remarkable results. Recognizing that a high school diploma is no longer enough to build a middle-class career, IBM and its education partners developed the P-TECH grade 9 to 14 schools connecting education directly to jobs.”http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/education/288238-changing-the-game-in-american-education

So glad I understand all this. “Through the Ed Lab, RFA will help state and local leaders implement the ground-breaking evidence provisions in the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which was enacted in December. ESSA could help shift more than $2 billion annually in federal education funds towards evidence-based, results-driven solutions in each of the next four years.”

“This week, United Nations delegates and other representatives of cities around the world are gathered in Surabaya, Indonesia, to hash out the specifics of a global agreement intended to guide urbanization over the next two decades. This “New Urban Agenda” is supposed to pay particular attention to equitable development. “

Great link, which is why it is so dangerous to hype power to the local governments instead of individuals themselves. I have been watching Habitat III, which is where the substantive policy action to gain actual implementation at what Urie called the Meso levels that then fit with where School Choice actually leads the Republicans and Libertarians and democratic education and Excellence take the Dems and Progressives.

Right now the education policies of both contenders for the US Presidency both go to the same place and it is Urie’s microlevel at its biological center. I think the key difference is Hillary is fully on board and has been since she was fascinated with saul alinsky as a college student and then Bill’s work with John Goodlad on global education in 1987 and her ties to Marc Tucker and NCEE.

I think Trump would have a problem if he recognized where all this really goes. Supposedly Donald Trump Jr’s work came from FH Buckley at George Mason U of Law, who in turn says his ideas came from Thomas Lindsay. After I got back I started tracking all this to figure out precisely where the bad advice was coming from Lindsay is now at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which is of course pushing for a Con Con to get us a new Constitution. https://insidehighered.com/views/2008/04/25/lindsay is from 2008 and sounds just like where we ended up when we looked into Classical Education that we are to be provided with the principles that will then guide our perception. Lindsay’s rep turns out to be democratic education.

Most importantly Buckley turns out to be in charge of the Manne Programs in Economics for Federal Judges. Also pushing what principles are to be used as lenses in analyzing ‘economic consequences’ of regulations. It keeps hyping how little judges knew about economics and how grateful they are, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Lindsay was also director of the National Endowment for the Humanities We the People project, which I recognize as problemmatic. All his degrees are in poli sci and “In recognition of his scholarship on democratic education, Lindsay was made the 1992-93 Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC.” Ahh, the Atlas Network again that TPPF is also a part of. Interesting tie to the Bradley Foundation too as they own Encounter Books, which published Buckley’s last two books. The April one wants to “bridge the gap between law and economics” and I have now ordered it as I keep tracking the history of all these ideas headed to a common, unappreciated place. Unlike those judges I like econ and was good enough at college to be an infamous curve breaker. I just can’t wait for Buckley to explain the law AND economics to me.

I also recognize that the phrase he uses about “socialist ends by capitalist means” is precisely what Gintis and Bowles said. They also saw the local as the best way in, just like the Atlas Network and Habitat III. I guess my mental break is officially over.

Also found this on Lindsay referring to post-Heritage: “This was followed by his being awarded a Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2002, he received his graduate certificate from the Institute for Educational Management Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.” It was here as apparently he also writes columns for the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/thomas-lindsay-phd

I guess this is what “Movement Conservatism” actually is. Obscuring language as the facade for Marxist ideas.

No, but as you know we have covered just how dominant Teaching Tolerance and the CARE Guide created with the NEA are in what is actually pushed in the classrooms. That explains my youngest adamantly not even wanting to see Trump Tower even though it is hard to avoid if you are going down to central park. Did you notice the reference to “years of anti-bullying work”?

The reality is that this election is interfering with the sculpted consensus and supposedly shared values that has become the little appreciated new purpose of K-12 schools. Much like the media omitting the first name of the Munich shooter or pretending Trayvon Martin still looked like a 13 year old or that Michael Brown said “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot” we have false narratives circulating because aggrieved or uninformed people vote as their remedy or remain unworried when they are actually under attack. Between schools and the media many teenagers will rarely hear or read anything that is factually true.

Seems the “evidence based” provisions in ESSA will guarantee schools shift away from academics to psychosocial development centers. If this reform was really about educating students, none of this so called innovation by way of federal grants would be the least bit necessary.

Yes, I did notice that. Thanks for the refresher links. Talked with my oldest about it. He said he thought it was interesting how the classroom level results get left out. His friends in tow agreed they could all raise their hand and the teacher would choose the non white kid every time, like they were told they must do so. He told me after a large anti-bullying assembly that he felt like he was the only kid not under the clapping, chanting spell.

I just finished Sandra Bloom’s Sanctuary Model book and it fits with the CARE Guide, Positive School Climate mandates, the Discourse Classroom, Obama’s Brothers Keepers Initiative down to using that phrase repeatedly, and the entire desired approach that wants to give criminals a pass because their behavior must come from a place of hurt and the persistence of inequitable ‘systems’.

I wanted to look at that before plugging it into the Social Determinants of Health template that we are clearly getting shoved at us. Love how Bloom insisted if people do not want to assume responsibilities for others and measure their language, the law needs to regulate that undesired rhetoric.

My daughter that just graduated from college and her best friend, who received an IB Diploma, used to joke that they might become reflexively violent if someone just uttered the phrase “Are you an IB Learner”?

You get to be comment #9000 here at ISC. I also crossed the 300K views while I was gone.

The metaphor I was reading from the Sanctuary Model that is so dangerous to me is the idea of “children as poison containers” and somehow we are all complicit because we are bystanders to so much deprivation. It also fits with the community schools model as it is also about teaching parents how to parent. Also about the need to get everyone to a shared belief system and common values. I guess all the driving has irritated I disc I have had trouble with in the past. Being horizontal works better than sitting up, but it lets me mull all this over.

Plus there is this quote: “Neil Campbell is the director of innovation on the K-12 education policy team at the Center for American Progress. He joins CAP from the Foundation for Excellence in Education and was previously chief of staff in the Education Department’s policy and budget office.”

We do indeed have a Uniparty when working for Jeb’s group leads to working for Podesta’s Center for American Progress with its opnely socialist visions.

“#GoOpen is part of a larger global and federal effort to institute OER in place of books and traditional education (in fact, USED appointed a new advisor to help school districts transition to OER). More disturbingly, another part of this scheme increases the federal government’s ability to monitor and track teacher and student use of these online resources – and perhaps even influence the content.
This outcome could result from a related, joint USED-Department of Defense initiative called the Learning Registry. ”http://townhall.com/columnists/janerobbins/2016/07/26/common-cores-national-curriculum-has-arrived-n2197608

That article still treats the Learning Registry as if collecting data on the child was the point as well as providing academic instructional content.

I am having trouble with the blog and while I am waiting to get that fixed I am reading a book called Active Liberty by SCOTUS justice Stephen Breyer. Elsewhere I tracked down that he is considered the Court’s leading advocate of the Process Theory of the Law. So far it has government as far more sovereign than any of us are aware of, but he starts the book with a shout out to Jane Robbins’ boss, the founder of American Principles Project, Robert George. I think part of the answer in the tendency to misrepresent what is really the aim of the Common Core lies in this desire to use learning standards, evidence-based policymaking generally, and the Process Theory of the Law to bind us and change us via education and the law without that being recognized.

… Writing in Righteous Indignation, Breitbart noted that, “the left doesn’t win its battles in debate. It doesn’t have to. In the 21st century, media is everything. The left wins because it controls the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media. The left is the media and narrative is everything.”…

….. As Breitbart continued, “the mainstream media portrays themselves as objective observers of reality when they’re no such thing —they’re partisan critical theory hacks who think they can destroy everything America stands for by standing on the sidelines and sniping at patriotic Americans with all their favorite slurs. They have nothing but contempt for the American people.”… The objective of the press today is not merely to inform, but to instruct the millions of impressionable American minds on what to believe, who to believe, and how to believe.

…. The role that the press plays is to make clear to the American people what the Obama administration is doing, why the administration is doing it, and why it is forced to act in a certain way. …

…. Goebbels, whom turned press conferences into secret meetings where the Propaganda Ministry would pass on detailed instructions to selected journalists, supplying articles to be printed verbatim or used as the basis for reports stated the following to the journalists, “You are to know not only what is happening, but also the government’s view of it and how you can convey that to the people most effectively.” That they were not to convey or print any view in opposition to the regime did not need to be said. This applies to our own press today

Thanks eclectic and agree wholeheartedly, which is why unesco refers to both as ‘media education’ since they both aim to shape prevailing belief systems about the nature of reality and what needs to change.

I have mentioned the example of narrative ruling over facts that bothered me the most. It still bothers me. Miriam Carey, 34, made a wrong turn into a driveway in downtown DC. She was swarmed by cops out of uniform yelling at her. She backed up to get away. She may have panicked. They began shooting at her car. She drove away fast but not real fast. Down the road, some concrete barriers rose out of holes in the street. She turned around and drove back the other way. They shot her five times in the back through her rear windshield, killing her. Two years later the attorney for her next of kin still cannot obtain dash cam or security cam videos of the incident for reasons of ‘national security.’

The narrative is that she rammed this and that, speed away at high speed, and could have been a terrorist, and was driving a deadly weapon and the cops feared for their lives, etc. Basically she was declared an enemy of the state. It reminded me of a scene in Fahrenheit 451.

Her daughter was in a car seat and not harmed. Miriam Carey was a 34 year old black dental hygienist. Many news stories left out the black part.

From your World Bank link above.
“Social institutions are just when the advantages they allocate are not distributed in a way that is arbitrary from a moral point of view. Distributions that result from parental wealth, place of birth, gender, race, or caste are typically considered to be morally arbitrary”.
I may or may not have choked on a nice glass of iced tea when reading that sentence. I instantly flashed back to last night on the DNC when the young gal was holding the sign weeping. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/crying-bernie-sanders-supporters
Did you watch last night? I just about lost it over the little girl stating she wants her parents to watch her at the science fair. So now you are a terrible person if you wish to enforce current immigration law. I mean how could you deny this little lady her parents at the science fair? At some point one of the broke the law! No one likes that though…..

Notice the admission that the model implements a certain vision of education without admitting that is what it is doing. Also confirms what we already know from my book. The Common Core is about skills, not knowledge.

Part of blog is still acting up. Need to know why before I get up a new post. In the mean time researching this Process Theory of the Law. I keep thinking of the term ‘guiding fiction’ as it fits well.

I was reading that Stephen Breyer book Active Liberty and read something I knew wasn’t true. He had cited a Professor Bernard Bailyn as his source and I discovered he had been a history prof at Harvard since 1953. A little more research turned up that he was one of the historians who chose to falsify the past to advance a means to push a new organization of society. He was the very first speaker Bill and Hillary hosted back in 1998 as part of their New Millenium Series. With the new emphasis on CCCs and DCIs and provided concepts but no facts that are true no one much is around to recognize the falsity of what is being provided. I am having the same reaction to that FH Buckley book The Way Back and asking cui bono.

Anyway in tracking Bailyn I kept thinking about Facing History and Ourselves and the fact that Matha Monow who was involved with it is now the Dean of Harvard Law upon Kagan’s departure for SCOTUS. These think tanks are just determined to use both education and the law to change who we are at a micro-level without consent. Buckley even flippantly makes a comment about not knowing of any effort to rewire brains to change human nature. I wrote a blurb about the BRAIN Initiative and the Science of Virtues NIH and Templeton are involved with.

Interesting that these blog malware attacks coincide with a discussion of certain topics beginning on Sunday.

Never forget either that VanDerArk was at that Silicon Valley GEFF meeting last year. If my poor blog is under attack, the research here and in my book remains undisputable and more prescient all the time.

Plus that Frank Shafroth at the Lincoln Policy/HUD Meeting is also a prof at GWU where Amitai Etzioni is pushing communitarianism and his Active Society from. Shafroth was with the National League of Cities for about 15 years and then moved to be chief lobbyist for the National Governors Association which is the co-sponsor of the Common Core back in 1999.

My college grad starts her first real job tomorrow so I have been out showing her how to use back roads to get herself to and from when the highways are crowded. My life has gotten in the way of my writing, but not my research.

including the incredible talking point babblings of then Jersey Gov Tom Keane and his equally effervescent colleague Lamar Alexander.

A purely private entity. But looks like a PPP to me! Amazing. Fundraising to lay all the policy and program groundwork with all our friends we talk about here, cha Ching to justify and shakedown for transfo schools. Even a shoutout to Sizer and Comer! The plan has brought us to the dialectical end we are seeing with these supposed republican conservatives bringing us ESSA to marry Hillary and Obama’s leftist democrat Obamacare in a match made in Etzioni heaven.

Thank you mad mommy. Spent part of today with my dad in the er as he fainted after church. Holding him overnight. If I don’t get a post up tomorrow it’s not because we are not ready to rock and roll here again with the facts.

Honestly hyping the federal role plays right into the vision of the documents I have linked this weekend.

I have been looking for something to say point blank that no one is responsible for crime from an impoverished background because we do not yet have the desired Human Development Society that is where everything I have read is headed. Much deceit of course. This manipulative framing around criminal justice and creating new mental models is close though. http://frameworksinstitute.org/assets/files/PDF/UKCJ_MM_July_2016_Final.pdf

The most effective strategy for preventing crime may well be to strengthen other social services, such as those that relate to education, housing and mental health. Building the political will to strengthen these systems is a crucial objective.

And of course those new state standards on social and emotional learning do precisely that when properly understood. No wonder my book found that the Common Core was all about changing values, attitudes, and beliefs.